Socjologia publiczna epoki transformacji: Zygmunt Bauman i Jerzy J. Wiatr wobec przełomu ustrojowego
Public Sociology of the Transition Period: Zygmunt Bauman and Jerzy J. Wiatr Confront the Political System Change
Author(s): Jacek Raciborski, Jarosław KiliasSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Civil Society, Sociology, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Political behavior, Politics and society, History and theory of political science, Comparative politics, History and theory of sociology, Social Theory, Studies in violence and power, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Nationalism Studies, Economic development, Social Norms / Social Control, Globalization, Politics of History/Memory, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Wydział Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: public sociology; engaged sociology; political system transition; Jerzy J. Wiatr; Zygmunt Bauman
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the public sociologists of the former Julian Hochfeld’s circle in the time of the political system change in Poland. Among the sociologists of that school Jerzy J. Wiatr played the most important role as both a traditional and an integral public sociologist involved in the Left-wing party politics. The paper depicts his activities as a public intellectual who became an eminent political leader, as well as his work as a social and political analyst. The paper confronts his vision of the political system change, as presented in the writings of the 1989–1991 period, with the work of another eminent sociologist of that school, Zygmunt Bauman. The latter did not play any political role and was much less involved in commenting the political change that was happening at that time, being a lot more skeptical about its result.
Journal: Studia Socjologiczno-Polityczne. Seria Nowa
- Issue Year: 14/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 9-28
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Polish
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